Register your interest – Customer Development (CD) Graduate Scheme (UFLP) – UK & Ireland
What do we look for?
You don’t need a specific degree background, this is an area where your personality will set you apart. It takes a special blend of initiative, people skills, and commercial acumen; you’ll need to be credible and confident in front of people and have a passion for growing businesses competitively, coupled with the power to influence and negotiate.
The role: Customer Account Management (Sales)
All of our brands have a powerful role to play in realising our vision for a sustainable future. You will have the opportunity to work on some of these amazing brands across different categories. Customer Account Management brings them to the customer, ensuring that they are available wherever the shopper wishes to buy them. With our key retailers, you will manage and build strong working relationships. Harnessing skill and sensitivity whilst developing and executing plans makes all the difference to our business and theirs.
What will the programme involve?
- Customer Management (Sales), where you will build relationships, examine relevant data, own financial forecasting, agree on a tailored business plan, and negotiate promotions.
- Category Management, where you will oversee a category of products, become an expert on the marketplace and our competitors, and advise customers on suitable ranges for their shoppers.
- Shopper Marketing – You’ll work closely with both the Customer Management teams and Marketing teams, to develop retailer‑specific media plans, to activate key brands.
- Customer Strategy – you’ll work closely with Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain functions, as well as the Customer Development teams to manage the link between brand ammunition and customer execution within a specific product category.
- Brand Management – you will have the opportunity to undertake a placement in marketing and get exposure to commercial marketing working with iconic brands like Dove, Persil, Sure, and Marmite, managing brand mixes to maximise their potential across product, place, price, and promotion.
What could your day‑to‑day role include (depending on your role)?
You’ll build partnerships with our wide range of customers – supermarkets, superstores, convenience stores, drug stores, discounters, online retailers, ice cream parlours, and even theme parks – so that we reach our target markets. That could mean working together to maximise a new product launch, recommending the right range of products, developing marketing programmes, negotiating an annual business plan, or looking for new business opportunities. Our Customer Insight and Innovation Centre allows us to work with our customers in exciting new ways. Our people and actions can make a big impact every day on a local level, across Europe and the globe.
Some of our positions you could be allocated to include:
- Customer Account Exec
- Category Exec
- Customer Strategy and Promotions Exec
- Assistant Brand Manager
Skills required include:
- Selling
- Negotiation
- Customer Relationship
What can Unilever offer YOU?
- A Competitive Salary of £35,000
- A Benefits Envelope which has a notional value of 25% of your pensionable earnings. Use it to save for your pension, get extra taxable pay or both.
- Annual Bonus
- A discounted staff shop
- Subsidised Gym Memberships – availability varies by site
- Shares
- Relocation Support through a £5000 tax free loan
- 25 days of holiday allowance
We give full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
What support will you receive?
- A dedicated buddy to help you onboard and learn about the business.
- A dedicated Career Sponsor, who can support you with your growth & development throughout the total duration of your programme.
- An experienced Line Manager for each of your functional rotations, allowing you to gain a breadth of experience.
- A bespoke Learning & Development Plan, designed to help you build your leadership skills.
- Opportunities to gain leadership experience outside of your functional rotations.
Location:
Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days required weekly spread across external customer meetings and our Kingston office.
Travel Required:
Approximately 10-25% of your time, depending on your functional rotation.
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